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GOP Debacle (Virginia)
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Nov 08, 2005 09:27pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, November 9, 2005 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | 1. First, it shouldn’t have been close. Kilgore won a landslide in 2001. Kaine barely edged his Republican opponent. And that wasn’t a good year for the Republican Party in Virginia. It was badly divided over budget issues. The party was ostensibly united this year.
2. Second, Warner at least made the pretense of being a moderate. Kaine is much less of a moderate in rhetoric and in philosophy.
3. Third, Kilgore ran what had to be one of the most incompetent campaigns in recent memory. A campaign ad inferring that your opponent would not execute Adolf Hitler is not only patently absurd, but genuinely stupid.
4. Fourth, granted, recent months have not been kind to the Republican Party or the President. However, Virginia was not a mandate on the President or national issues. Blaming Bush’s low approval ratings for the debacle here will not serve any useful purpose.
The bright side, if there is one, is that the Republicans won both the Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General races. That means the Democrats do not have any heavyweight contender for the nomination in 2009. But I won’t predict the GOP picks up Virginia in 2009. Knowing the Republican Party, it will have a brutal and vicious primary.
Nice job GOP. Nice job George Allen. I hope Republicans across America don’t allow you anywhere near the podium on the final night of the 2008 Republican Convention. |
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